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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:41:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Charlie Schluting <charlie@schluting.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help! 5.1 doesn't do the rc thing?
Message-ID:  <20030807133641.X64350@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030807185734.GA25658@guylian.urgle.com>
References:  <20030806205057.V4316@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu> <200308072012.57140.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20030807185734.GA25658@guylian.urgle.com>

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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mike Bristow wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:49:00AM -0700, Charlie Schluting wrote:
> > Yes, of course :)
> > That's why I'm perplexed. I let it install the files it wanted to,
> > except for obvious things I didn't want overwritten: passwd file,
> > sendmail config, etc.
> >
> > Just to verify: my old rc.conf should be read (and honored) right?
>
> Yes.  But it may contain bogosity; what does ". /etc/rc.conf" do?
> What's in /etc/rc.conf?
>
Thanks for the response:
. /etc/rc.conf produces no output.

Here it is:
(the missing line numbers are comments)
You can see that I'm setting the hostname and IP here... but when it
booted, it knew nothing of the sort :(

/etc/rc.conf:
      9 defaultrouter="131.252.214.4"
     10 hostname="cheshire.cat.pdx.edu"
     11 ifconfig_fxp0="inet 131.252.214.57  netmask 255.255.255.0"
     12 inetd_enable="YES"
     13 kern_securelevel_enable="YES"
     14 kern_securelevel="0"
     15 linux_enable="YES"
     16 nfs_server_enable="YES"
     17 nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4"
     18 mountd_flags="-r"
     21 rpcbind_enable="YES"
     22 quota_enable="YES"
     23 check_quotas="YES"
     24 firewall_enable="YES"
     25 firewall_type="OPEN"
     26 firewall_quiet="NO"
# note: I manually edited rc.firewall, that's why I just left "OPEN" as-is.
     27 xntpd_enable="YES"
     28 xntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd"
     29 xntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
     30 #
     31 named_enable="YES"
     32 named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
     33 named_flags="-c /usr/local/etc/named.conf -u bind"
     34 #
     35 router_enable="YES"
     36 router="/sbin/routed -s"
     40 sendmail_enable="YES"
     41 sendmail_flags="-bd"
     42 sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
     43 sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
     44 sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
     45 sshd_enable="YES"
     46 usbd_enable="NO"



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